Leila Mae Blackshear

Leila Mae Blackshear

October 20, 1934 ~ June 14, 2014 | 79


Leila Mae Blackshear

Funeral services for Mrs. Leila Mae Blackshear, of Dublin, will be held on Saturday, June 21, 2014, at 1 PM at the Hillbridge Road Church of Christ, 433 Hillbridge Road in Dublin. Interment will follow in the Hillbridge Road Memorial Garden Cemetery. Brother Larry Stewart will officiate.

Mrs. Blackshear, who was born September 20, 1934, in Dexter, Georgia, to the late Mrs. Martha (Charlie) Gibson-Robinson and Mr. Fess (Arnetta) Boyer, was married to the Walter "WC" Blackshear until his death on February 23, 1938. She departed this life on June 14, 2014.

She attended Washington Street School and Oconee High School. She worked various jobs until retiring from Loving Care Day Care. She was a faithful member of Bellevue Road Church of Christ.

She was preceded in death by three sisters, Louise Evans, Jacqueline Robinson-Rouse and Winafer Sylvia Robinson and by a grandson, Kevin Blackshear.


Mrs. Blackshear leaves to cherish her memories her children, Shirley (Doug) Boyer-Beatty of Union City, Therisa Blackshear of Dublin, Freddie Blackshear of Dublin, Ricky (Roselyn) Blackshear of Fairburn, Joel (Yola) Blackshear of Boynton Beach, Florida, Jim Blackshear of Atlanta; a devoted granddaughter that she raised, Zandra Blackshear of Charleston, South Carolina. She also leaves her siblings, Charles (Belinda) Robinson of Decatur, Sammie (Lena) Robinson of Dublin; Martha, Sandra, Mary, Carol and Kay Robinson of Dublin, Charlie Mae Adams of Decatur; step-brother, Homer (Rosetta) Rozier of Dudley; sister-in-law, Ida Mae Henry of Conyers; brothers-in-law, Robert Evans, Sr. of Newark, Ohio, Alfonzo Blackshear of Dublin; devoted aunt, Mary Swann of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, fourteen grandchildren, twenty-three great grandchildren, one great-great grandchild and a host of nieces, nephews and cousins.

The family will receive friends at 808 Euclid Street in Dublin and at the Dudley Funeral Home on Friday, 6-7 pm.

Services By Dudley Funeral Home of Dublin
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Cemetery

Hillbridge Road Memorial Garden Cemetery, Dublin, Georgia

128 Days until next birthday (10/20/2014 or 20/10/2014)
237 Days since previous birthday (10/20/2013 or 20/10/2013)
165 Day of the year passed on
200 Remaining days in the year
54 6/14/2014   (6 + 14 + 20 + 14)
79 Years lived
29092 Total days lived